. >>> we have major news concerning pakistan tonight and it has ties to our area. federal agents have arrested a man from fairfax, virginia accusing him of being on the payroll of pakistan's spy agency. >> he's not accused of beating a spy. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us now to explain what's going on. if not a spy, what is he accused of. >> he's accused of being an unregistered agent of the pakistani government. this comes as a big surprise to people who knew the founder of the kashmiri american council in this building you're looking at at 1111 16th street northwest. he's been running it for about 20 years, making political contributions, all the while the federal government maintained today after arrestingg so at the behest of the pakistani government without ever admitting the ties, the government maintains that he was taking his instructions fro pakistan's intelligence agency, the isi. since the mid '90s, the pakistanis have funneled him about $4 million. he's given about 2 million of it in political contributions, never disclosing to th